I have an adventurous sense of wonder about the world. There are so
many interesting things to know and touch and see and feel, and I
want to experience it all through the lens of childlike wonderment,
tinting everything with significance and novelty.

I enjoy learning about the human experience through introspective
reflection on my own experiences during my interactions with the
world and cultivating relationships with those around me. I think
socialization is important in that being a social animal lets one
grow as a person. I think the journey is often more important than
the destination and that the best way to get to know and grow
closer to someone is through shared experience. I also think that
discovering and knowing oneself, really and truly, is one of the
noblest and most important goals in life. This requires a lot of
honesty, with oneself and with the people in one's life, so I guess
I'd say I'm pretty good at those things.

Despite being more of an artsy person, I enjoy learning about
science and psychology and zoology (among so many other things). I
know that wasps can recognize the faces of other wasps that they
know and that only half of a dolphin's brain is asleep at any one
time (otherwise they'd drown) and many other things. If you're
interested, we can talk about them. I know lots of things about
lots of things.

Lately I've been listening to NPR and meeting a lot of new people.
This Fall I'll be attending graduate school for a Masters Degree in
Social Work with a focus in sexuality (despite studying Art and
Creative Writing in college).

Adventures, whimsy, imagination, empathy, making people laugh,
being emotionally mature while being (charmingly) immature about
certain other things (because life is about more than just
maturity), being very sex-positive (I'm even down with/interested
in polyamory and alternative lifestyles), talking intelligently
about Art and Writing, playing some guitar, singing in the car and
shower, and mailing messages in bottles to people (it's not just
for the ocean anymore!).

BOOKS: No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July,
Cruddy by Lynda Barry, Willful Creatures by Aimee
Bender, and other short fiction or poetry that's kind of in the
same vein. I also read some fantasy/scifi. Plus and also: lots of
comic books and graphic novels of varying genres. And Achewood! If
you love it, too, we'll probably get along swimmingly.

MOVIES: I watch a lot of different stuff.

TV (in no particular order): Archer, Arrested Development, Game of
Thrones, The Following, Sherlock, Hannibal, The X-Files, American
Horror Story, The Wire, The Office, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock,
The IT Crowd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Seinfeld,
etc.

Why goats' pupils are rectangular (UPDATE: I've discovered why, but
it's still interesting), the wonders of evolution and the animal
kingdom, performance art, Marina Abramovic, being in touch with my
body and its processes, human (and animal) sexuality and everything
to do with it, BDSM, kink, polyamory, feminism, social justice,
where hard science and soft science converge, psychosomaticism, the
power of suggestion, social psychology and the science of lying,
folklore, language and etymology, shapes, carrion flowers, and
Natalie Portman's eyebrows.